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Joh
The life & political adventures of Johannes Bjelke-Petersen
- by Hugh Lunn -
ISBN: 0702212164
Publisher: University of Queensland Press, Australia
Published: 1978
Binding: HARDcover with dustjacket 280 pages illustrated
Condition: UNread condition! A retired display copy!
Edition: FIRST EDITION: first printing !!!
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UNread - it was the display copy. It is Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A nicely preserved copy - superb!
A MAGNIFICENT UNREAD COLLECTIBLE COPY!! VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION!!
Minimal, if any, discernible shelf wear to the cloth boards or dustjacket, the interior is tight and spotlessly clean with 280 pages. it's illustrated throughout with archival photographs
In original blue cloth HARDcover binding, in publisher's lovely shiny pictorial dustcover which is virtually as new and UNclipped!
SYNOPSIS
Joh is the only definitive and up-to-date biography of the strongman who has ruled Queensland for twenty years and now has his sights set on the national leadership. Here are all the behind-the scenes stories of his personal and political adventures.
This vitally important book explains the rise of an obscure peanut farmer with little formal schooling who has become Australia's most controversial politician.
About The Author
Hugh Duncan Lunn is an Australian journalist and author, born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1941. Lunn served his journalism cadetship with The Courier-Mail. Upon completing his cadetship, he worked overseas for seven years. During 1967 and 1968 he covered the Vietnam War for Reuters, and exposed the so-called "Act of Free Choice" in West Papua in 1969 while the Reuter Correpsondent in Indonesia, before returning to Australia to become Queensland editor of The Australian. Over the course of the next two decades Lunn was in turn sacked and re-employed by Rupert Murdoch's newspaper a number of times. Finding himself without employment at the age of 47, he began to pen a memoir about his childhood.
Lunn is now famous in Queensland for a number of autobiographical books: in June 2009 he was voted as a Queensland Icon as one of 15 "influential artists" in the state's history in a list of 15 which included the Bee Gees, Jeffrey Rush, Powderfinger and David Malouf. The best known of his memoirs is Over The Top With Jim. Published in 1989, Over The Top... became the biggest-selling non-fiction book in Australia for the calendar year 1991. It tells the story of his Brisbane childhood and his friendship with Jim Egoroff and Ken Fletcher. After reading the book Egoroff is said to have visited Lunn and threatened to "punish you for your sins".
Lunn is also famous for coining the phrase "there is no such thing as an ex-Queenslander", which he first used when in November 1979 he convinced rugby league Senator Ron McAuliffe, President of the QRL, on a 90-minute plane trip from Brisbane to Canberra, of the viability of a Rugby League State of Origin series.
Very, very entertaining read!
Reviews..
Industry review .... Lunn’s book “Joh” was published in 1978 and misses out on the excesses of the 1980s era Joh administration. Joh trampled on civil liberties, encouraged police corruption and destroyed John Howard’s hopes of winning power in 1987 with his ill-judged ‘Joh for Canberra’ crusade. That same year, the ABC 4 Corners episode “The Moonlight State” began to bring the corruption into the public record. The Fitzgerald Inquiry released its findings in 1989 and implicated senior members of Joh’s government. Joh was eventually forced to resign. He avoided prison for perjury at the Inquiry due to a deadlocked jury whose foreman was a member of the National Party. He died in 2005 and was buried at the family property “Bethany” after a state funeral.
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